Director of national intelligence. Watch online on seesmic the oracle or listen on the free cspan radio app. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz announced monday the state legislature will debate a bipartisan proposal to help Small Businesses during the pandemic. The governor was joined by state officials who announced a new app to help with state covid19 Contract Tracing efforts and to provide an update on covid cases, deaths and hospitalizations. This runs 40 minutes. Good afternoon, minnesota and good afternoon to our reporters. For those watching or listening at home, we are pulling reporters. Will be receiving questions through many of them. I will try to remember to reiterate and repeat the question and then answer it. This last week has been tough. There is no other way to put it. Our numbers are unrelenting in our hospitalizations. You have seen record set in terms of cases, hospitalizations, icus and unfortunately deaths. Our hospitals and First Responders are deriving everything are
Good afternoon, minnesota and good afternoon to our reporters. For those watching or listening at home, we are pulling reporters. Will be receiving questions through many of them. I will try to remember to reiterate and repeat the question and then answer it. This last week has been tough. There is no other way to put it. Our numbers are unrelenting in our hospitalizations. You have seen record set in terms of cases, hospitalizations, icus and unfortunately deaths. Our hospitals and First Responders are deriving everything are doing everything they possibly can. There are reasons to be optimistic over the horizon with a vaccine. There are reasons to be optimistic now that we have new therapeutics. There are also reasons to be optimistic because the data shows if we change our behaviors and take some of the mitigation efforts, there is a cascading effect that keeps people from being infected, keeps people out of the hospital, which saves lives. It is what we asked last week. I want to b
School during this pandemic no school work no graduation up next well show you how some students are using technology to create a virtual campus its all right its time to boost your means i knew. Right over 1000. 00 continuing to grip the world and of course this nation right now the new total around the world topping 1600000. 00 with over 100000 deaths and 368000 recover cases known so far the u. S. Still of course leading the way with more than 474000 confirmed cases and 17000 deaths 26000 recovered now those National Figures brings us to the state of new york which continues. To bear the brunt of this virus as it remains the epicenter of the outbreak new york now accounting for more than 93000 cases but while the state remains on lockdown looks like the curve might finally be leveling off archies Trinity Chavez picks up the report from new york. Today new york city the crossroads of the world has more confirmed cases of coven 19 than any other city on earth hospitals still heading c
This graph. It tracks the outbreak here in california and you can see in february. The numbers were low Health Experts say thats because there was not as much testing look how the numbers climb today there are more than 4800 confirmed cases and 98 related deaths in california and those numbers are expected to rise as a number of coronavirus cases grows across the bay area and the state continues to go up. We are hearing from medical experts about what will happen and what it needs to happen to flatten out the curve. Cases are expected to grow but just how far up will they go before they finally level out kron fours dan thorn has the story california saw its biggest jump in coronavirus cases friday as almost 800 new cases were reported. As the state climbs towards 4,000 casein total what will it take to turn the tide experts say following publi Health Guidelines and continue to stay separated. California remains one of the states hardest hit by the coronavirus 2 weeks ago the state had
Protection, Transportation Security Administration, and a secret service answer questions from the House Homeland Security committee. The committee on Homeland Security will come to order. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on a department of Homeland Security use of a facial recognition and other Biometric Technologies. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Good morning. The committee on Homeland Security is meeting to examine department of Homeland Security use of facial recognition and other Biometric Technologies. The government use of biometrics is not entirely new. For example, finger prints have been used as an identification tool for many decades. Other biometrics includes dna, voice pattern and palm prints. In recent years facial recognition has become the new chosen forum of Biometric Technology as facial Recognition Technology has advanced it is used by the